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No stanza of the poem is more replete than this with a vein of painfully sarcastic drollery.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANThe pen can give but a shadow of the drollery and devilry of the sweet, merry rogues that hailed the smiling morn.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READEThere was a kind of drollery about Mrs. Freke, which, with some people, made the odd things she said pass for wit.
TALES AND NOVELS, VOLUME 3 (OF 10)MARIA EDGEWORTHAll of which drollery concluded with his announcement of place and date of his lecture, with still further gaiety at the end.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINEHe seemed to have a naïve spirit of drollery, and he related quite amusingly an experience of his railway journey.
THROUGH THE WALLCLEVELAND MOFFETTHow ready each to take the jest against himself, and even heighten its flavor by some new touch of drollery.
THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE, VOL. I (OF II)CHARLES JAMES LEVEREvidently the serious-talking young radical had a vein of drollery under his thoughtful exterior.
THE INCENDIARYW. A. (WILLIAM AUGUSTINE) LEAHYThis idea is developed with more drollery than delicacy in the tale in question.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. IX.--FEBRUARY, 1851.--VOL. II.VARIOUSBut, notwithstanding his rather clumsy drollery, she soon discovered a greatness in the man for which she was wholly unprepared.
THE LIFE OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, VOLUME II (OF 3)ALEXANDER WHEELOCK THAYERJerry delivered her polite emendation with irresistible drollery.
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WORDS RELATED TO DROLLERY
- ball
- burlesque
- camp
- chaffing
- comic drama
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- facetiousness
- farce
- field day
- fun
- fun and games
- funnies
- funniness
- gag show
- high camp
- high time
- hilarity
- hoopla
- humor
- humorousness
- interlude
- jesting
- joking
- light entertainment
- merry-go-round
- picnic
- play on
- satire
- schtick
- send-up
- sitcom
- slapstick
- takeoff
- travesty
- vaudeville
- wisecracking
- witticism
- wittiness
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